Thoughts, poems, prayers, sermons, and more from the Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.

Friday, April 3, 2015

The Women at the Cross

Dorothy Sayers in her essay, “Are Women Human?” (1938) said,

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man … A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized … who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female … Nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything [inferior] about woman’s nature.